Does traffic has correlation with search engine ranking?

To increase search engine ranking, we need to take care on metatag, look for quality link partner, keywords in paragraph, quality related info, smartpage..

But some one say that if our website traffic increase, search engine ranking will increase as well.

Will that be true?

I don't know if that will be true. But I think that you are talking about different things.

Actually, its the other way round!
As your SEO rankings increase, your traffic increases!

As for whether an influx of traffic will help your rankings i would say, with 99% certainty, that it does not. Otherwise you could just buy cheap traffic and you'd be at number 1 in no time.

However, I have noticed a few times that Google sends me through one of its own pages before delivering my to a search result. Ive noticed this especially on searches for "cracks" and "warez" (not that I do that sort of thing ). So there is potential for it to be a part of the ranking algorithm but I would say not.

for me it depend on where are you traffic come from, is it the quality traffic or your paid for it.

Moreover for SERPs, it all about a good content with a good quality of traffic.

Rankings are dependent on many things but traffic to a site isn't one of them. If you have, for example, a link farm with lots of traffic, it doesn't mean you're going to get better rankings. More than likely your PR will be lower because the quality of links the site has isn't usually good.

Originally Posted by montyauto But some one say that if our website traffic increase, search engine ranking will increase as well.

Yes, this is true, although not directly. It's not known the search engines to take the traffic as a ranking criteria (However the opposite is also not known. Google for example uses more than 100 criteria for ranking a page).

But, when you have more traffic to your site, you'll get more people bookmark it. You'll get more people linking to it. You'll have more people talking to it. This all helps your search engines ranking and it gets better.

This all is true assuming that your traffic comes because you have a quality site and the surfers like it. If your traffic comes from paid to surf programs, link farms or something similar, it may even damage your SERPs as other said.

The more links you get from relevant websites in your niche the more your traffic will go up and the higher the pr (pagerank) of your website will become. One of the best thing you can do is optimize your website for the appropriate keywords that your targeting which is part of the on site optimization. The second factor is what you should be focusing most of your time on and that is to build up quality links from websites within your niche. You can purchase links or write quality content to get others to start linking to you. Also, providing a quality tool for free for individuals in your niche is not a bad idea because others will start linking to you very nicely. Take care.

Doug

Originally Posted by popstalindesign Rankings are dependent on many things but traffic to a site isn't one of them. If you have, for example, a link farm with lots of traffic, it doesn't mean you're going to get better rankings. More than likely your PR will be lower because the quality of links the site has isn't usually good.

Traffic depends on rankins, and not vice versa. And to determine rankings the algorythm is used that takes into consideration too many things like number of backlinks, quality of the content, the relevance of the content to the query and many more we don't know about...

And trafic is different. It is useful and unuseful

Traffic does not effect web site ranking.

But web site ranking does effect your traffic, being that the better your web site is optimized, the better chance that your pages/sites are ranked better, thus leading to more traffic and conversions.